Our journey south was severely hampered by the weather conditions and resulting traffic chaos. As we attempted to join the A12 in the snow just outside Cambridge, others were reversing up the hard shoulder of the slip road in an attempt to escape the gridlock. TPR hesitated at the roundabout, turned the car around again, and declared that we would have to find an alternative route ourselves.

A consequence of this was that I was appointed to my least favourite role: navigator. I reached for the road atlas on the back seat and hunted for the right page. The map was useless. Down the west of England it showed only one thin road that followed the route of the M6, but none of the major towns such as Liverpool and Manchester featured on the pages at all. I concluded that the map was simply out of date, charted before the Industrial Revolution. However, there were further problems with the information as presented on the pages in front of me. Since when had Andover and Axminster been relocated to Peterborough?

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How RG could practise law in Scotland from a base in England did not concern him, nor BM. When we visited them in their new London flat they seemed to be very pleased with their move south.